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Michael David Fortescue (born 8 August 1946, Thornbury [1]) is a British-born [2] linguist specializing in Arctic and native North American languages, including Kalaallisut, Inuktun, Chukchi and Nitinaht.
Fortescue is known for his reconstructions of the Eskaleut, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, and Wakashan proto-languages.
As a young teenager, Michael Fortescue and his family moved to California where he went to La Jolla High School 1956-1959. [1] [3] He finished school at Abingdon School in 1963. [4] In 1966, he received a B.A. with "Honours with great Distinction" in Slavic languages and literatures from University of California, Berkeley, where he then taught Russian 1968-1970 and finished an M.A. in Slavic languages and literatures. In the years 1971-1975 he taught English for the International Language Centre in Osaka and the University of Aix/Marseille. [3] He took a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh 1975-1978 [5] with the thesis Procedural discourse generation model for 'Twenty Questions'. [6] With a Danish scholarship, he visited University of Copenhagen and did fieldwork in Greenland in 1978-79, and this research became supported from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities in the period 1979-1982. In 1984, he became associate professor in eskimology at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1989 docent. [3] He became professor in linguistics in 1999, and retired in 2011. [2]
On the occasion of his retirement in 2011, a special issue in the journal Grønland was published in 2012 as a festschrift. After retiring, he moved to England, [1] where he was elected an associate of St Hugh's College. [7] An edited book was published as a festschrift in his honour in 2017. [8] In 2019, he was elected to Academia Europaea. [7]
He was chairman of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen 2005-2011. [2]
His Comparative Eskimo Dictionary, co-authored with Steven Jacobson and Lawrence Kaplan, [9] is the standard work in its area, as is his Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary. [10] In his book Pattern and Process, [11] Fortescue explores the possibilities of a linguistic theory based on the philosophical theories of Alfred North Whitehead. [12] [13][ better source needed]
A more complete listing is available in the Festschrift in his honor. [8]
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Michael David Fortescue | |
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Born | |
Occupation | Linguist |
Michael David Fortescue (born 8 August 1946, Thornbury [1]) is a British-born [2] linguist specializing in Arctic and native North American languages, including Kalaallisut, Inuktun, Chukchi and Nitinaht.
Fortescue is known for his reconstructions of the Eskaleut, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, and Wakashan proto-languages.
As a young teenager, Michael Fortescue and his family moved to California where he went to La Jolla High School 1956-1959. [1] [3] He finished school at Abingdon School in 1963. [4] In 1966, he received a B.A. with "Honours with great Distinction" in Slavic languages and literatures from University of California, Berkeley, where he then taught Russian 1968-1970 and finished an M.A. in Slavic languages and literatures. In the years 1971-1975 he taught English for the International Language Centre in Osaka and the University of Aix/Marseille. [3] He took a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh 1975-1978 [5] with the thesis Procedural discourse generation model for 'Twenty Questions'. [6] With a Danish scholarship, he visited University of Copenhagen and did fieldwork in Greenland in 1978-79, and this research became supported from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities in the period 1979-1982. In 1984, he became associate professor in eskimology at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1989 docent. [3] He became professor in linguistics in 1999, and retired in 2011. [2]
On the occasion of his retirement in 2011, a special issue in the journal Grønland was published in 2012 as a festschrift. After retiring, he moved to England, [1] where he was elected an associate of St Hugh's College. [7] An edited book was published as a festschrift in his honour in 2017. [8] In 2019, he was elected to Academia Europaea. [7]
He was chairman of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen 2005-2011. [2]
His Comparative Eskimo Dictionary, co-authored with Steven Jacobson and Lawrence Kaplan, [9] is the standard work in its area, as is his Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary. [10] In his book Pattern and Process, [11] Fortescue explores the possibilities of a linguistic theory based on the philosophical theories of Alfred North Whitehead. [12] [13][ better source needed]
A more complete listing is available in the Festschrift in his honor. [8]
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